Pirate Bay Totally Breaks Godwin’s Law While Patting Itself On The Back

It hasn’t been a great week for BitTerrorist haven The Pirate Bay, which was shut down yesterday by Swedish authorities as the company that had put in a bid to buy it got investigated for insider trading. But thanks to their 1337 #k1llz, they’re back online. Hooray (?). In the statement accompanying their return from the Internet wilderness, the site’s masterminds completely fileshared British prime minister Winston Churchill’s “We shall fight on the beaches” speech, which he delivered in 1940. Because, you know, defending peoples’ rights to share Pink Floyd discographies at will is just as important as fighting genocide! Sigh. Anyway, I kind of wish that we could follow the old-school rules of the Internet and ignore them outright for bringing up the Nazis, but I’m going to guess that we’re stuck with them. The statement, after the jump.

We have, ourselves, full confidence that if all do their duty, if nothing is neglected, and if the best arrangements are made, as they are being made, we shall prove ourselves once more able to defend our Internets, to ride out the storm of war, and to outlive the menace of tyranny, if necessary for years, if necessary alone.
Even though large parts of Internets and many old and famous trackers have fallen or may fall into the grip of the Ifpi and all the odious apparatus of MPAA rule, we shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France, we shall fight on the ef-nets and darknets, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our Internets, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the baywords.org, we shall fight on the /. and on the digg, we shall fight in the courts; we shall never surrender, and if, which I do not for a moment believe, the Internets or a large part of it were subjugated and starving, then our Empire beyond the seas, armed and guarded by the Anon Fleet, would carry on the struggle, until, in Cerf’s good time, the New World, with all its power and might, steps forth to the rescue and the liberation of the old.
Signed;
The Pirate Bay Crew – Now until needed.